The eBay Phenomenon tells the inside story of how a hobby/experiment run from Pierre Omidyar’s Silicon Valley apartment gave birth to not just a new business model but a whole new industry – creating one of the most powerful forces on the Internet. Featuring interviews with eBay insiders such as CEO Meg Whitman, this compelling and instructive book reveals how, with no blueprint or [...]

When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal’s history as told by former insider Eric Jackson is an engrossing study [...]